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Know what? Take some Gold. That pisses me off too Thats called "Elephant racing". The reason this happens is that the trucks have speed limiters, and the slower truck refuses to let the slightly faster one pass by. The truck on the left usually cant slow down and get back to the right, because cars usually get right up behind both trucks, and keep either one from getting behind the other. Once a truck attempts to pass, he is often stuck with that decision for miles and miles until either he makes it past, or the other guy lets him by.

This gets worse if the trucks are much different weights, because every little hill the heavier truck will slow down a bit, then speed up on the other side... basically tea bagging everyone else around him. .

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Most important thing to remember is that we can only stop about a quarter as quickly as cars can. Second most important is that we are mostly blind near the front right side of our nose. A lot of people like to hang out right in that blind spot. For oversize loads, dont drive right next to them even when you have space, because bridges and overpasses are significantly more narrow than the road and he might need to use your lane for no apparent reason. One of my co-workers hit the side of a bridge because he had to choose between that or crushing a car against the other wall.

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Actually, yes. They dont usually traffic people in the back of trucks any more. I used to be dedicated to a Texan cross border run, and they have all sorts of special cameras and masint sensors that keep track of any trucks within 20 miles of the border. If anybody is with you, even another sleeping trucker, they will wake them up and talk to them to make sure they are an American citizen. What surprised me was that I came across trafficking near my own home town! A local restaurant was acting as a kind of Coyote, and working people like slaves until they paid off the debt. This happened not once, but TWICE. The people were too scared to run away, they thought THEY would be the ones in trouble. The thing that makes trafficking so hard to spot is that they do it in plain sight, and the victims are too scared to stand up for themselves.

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